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Information Sources and Services

Notes

Task Survey several offices in your area. Which reproduction methods are most used?
Combine your information with other members of the class and compile a short report
listing the reprographics equipment, policies, and procedures used in local offices.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:

15. In phototypesetting, a photographic technique is used to set the type; the phototypesetting
machine takes pictures of each character one at a time and then prints them at high speeds
onto photosensitive paper.
16. A facsimile machine is neither a scanner nor a recorder.

Case Study Quintiles Transnational

Background
Quintiles Transnational provides a full spectrum of product development and
commercialization activities, from early compound development, laboratory services,
and regulatory submission through sales and marketing. Headquartered near Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina, Quintiles has over 16,000 employees and boasts offices in
50 countries.

Challenge
Specializing in product development services, commercialization, and pharma-bio
development, Quintiles is a leading global pharmaceutical firm and member of the Fortune
1000. As such, they understood the need to create a more efficient and structured format
for translating worldwide medical content.
Quintiles’ practice of pharmacovigilance involved using a unified set of global Core
Operating Procedures to coordinate the clinical and post-marketing safety data
collection, processing, and reporting of their marketed medicines. Translations.com
was given the job of centrally translating this information into English for review.

Many of the reports were hand-written and included medical shorthand, calling for
qualified linguists with medical backgrounds.
Hundreds of pages of medical reports containing complex medical terminology
had to be translated and checked for accuracy, while technical notes needed to be
deciphered and incorporated.

Solution
As a leader in the life sciences industry, Translations.com worked with Quintiles
Transnational to create a solution that would accommodate their global growth.

Translations.com assessed the exact requirements of the firm and developed a
customized solution that would streamline the process and deliver the documents
in the most functional format.

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